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How the term “genocide” is misused in the Israel-Hamas war
(www.economist.com)
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Nazi Germany started with different policies depending on the target group:
Then, when the conquest of North Africa got thwarted, and the costs of war started piling up more and more, Mr. Reinhard (aka "The butcher of Prague", among other similar nicknames) came up with the definitive alternative: "kill them all".
There were always "some Nazi extremists" who wanted to "kill them all" from the beginning... just like now we have "some Russian extremists" who wanted to "nuke Paris and London" from the beginning... or "some Israeli extremists" who wanted to "push all Palestinians to concentration camps in Egypt" from the beginning, or "tear down all non-Jewish homes" (that includes both Muslim and Christian).
...and of course that is total BS. The foundation of Israel is the UN resolution, which has two parts:
AKA: there can only be one state left... so someone has to get stomped out.
That's what the UN and Israel's Declaration of Independence have been saying all the time.
Now, there doesn't have to be one ethnicity in one state, but that is the practical outcome in this case, pretty much from the beginning.
Theoretically true. There are many countries with multiple ethnicities after all... yet in how many of them the different ethnicities actually live in peace with each other? It would seem like there are ethnic clashes everywhere, and the farther that WW2 fades out in collective memory, the more of them.
There are different levels of peace, and people seem to find far more reasons than just ethnicity to fight over. I mean, Sufis, Sunnis, and Shias all fight with each other and they're all Islam.